We are delighted to announce the slate of candidates for APHA officers and board trustees who will be standing for election at the Annual Meeting on Saturday, January 24, 2026. This talented and dynamic group is essential to the continued growth and success of the American Printing History Association, and we encourage all members to participate in the upcoming vote.

The Nominating Committee
E. Haven Hawley, Chair
Hosea Baskin, Nina Schneider, J. Fernando Peña, and Sara T. Sauers

VIRGINIA L. BARTOW, PRESIDENT

Virginia Bartow recently retired from The New York Public Library where she held positions in the Preservation Division, the Cataloging Division, Rare Books and the Arents Collections, and Special Formats Processing. Virginia has worked in libraries since 1979, at Cornell University, Columbia University, and Dartmouth College, before joining the staff at The New York Public Library. Virginia’s undergraduate degree is from William Smith College in Geneva, New York, and her M.S. in Library and Information Science is from Columbia University where she studied in the rare books program. Virginia joined APHA while in library school at Columbia, and first
attended the annual conference in 1981 when the meeting was held in the Butler Library auditorium. Virginia held office in APHA as Vice President of Membership, APHA Board Secretary, and she was the Vice President of the New York chapter for many years. Virginia is a
member of the Grolier Club, where she served on the Library Committee and currently is on the Committee on Public Exhibitions. Virginia is a member of the Typophiles, where she serves as Vice President and former Secretary. Virginia also served as a board member at the Center for Book Arts for nine years.

MICHELLE MCCARTHY-BEHLER, SECRETARY

Michelle McCarthy-Behler is Senior Manager of Public Services for Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books at the Stephen A. Schwarzman building of the New York Public Library. She is passionate about nurturing collaboration among teams and designing services that make
special collections accessible to a diverse community of users. In addition to her professional work, Michelle is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research explores queer Holocaust history and lifewriting. When not working, she enjoys hiking, playing the cello, and spending time with her husband and two little girls.

JIM KUHN, TREASURER (SECOND TERM)

Jim Kuhn is Associate Director at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. He has held special collections leadership positions at academic and independent research libraries. He holds master’s degrees in philosophy and in library science, is a member of the Grolier Club, and has held appointed and elected positions in the American Library Association. He currently serves as board member of the Austin Book Arts Center, as board chair of the Texas After Violence Project, and as a volunteer mental health first responder in UT Austin’s Victims Advocate Network. He was a long-term treasurer of the Friends of the Takoma Park Maryland Library and currently serves on the Finance and Stewardship Committee of the Friends Meeting of Austin, a faith community where he is a member. He also participates in the Internet Archive’s “Great 78 Project.”

DIANE DIAS DE FAZIO, VICE PRESIDENT FOR MEMBERSHIP (SECOND TERM)

Diane Dias De Fazio is Library Services Manager for Rare Books & Special Collections at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Editor in Chief of RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, the scholarly journal of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. She has advocated for bilingual content in such journals and been instrumental in public engagement efforts of the APHA Board, on which she has served in roles including Trustee and Chair of the Award Committee. Her expertise as a curator spans manuscripts to ‘zines.

ALEXANDRIA MARIE POST, VICE PRESIDENT FOR PROGRAMS

Alex Post currently serves as the Special Collections and Research Assistance and Instruction Librarian at San Francisco State University, a position she has held since February 2019. Previously, Alex was archivist with San Francisco State’s Labor Archives and Research Center,
reference librarian at San Francisco Public Library, and archives and manuscripts librarian at Mills College in Oakland. Alex holds a BA in Comparative and World Literature from San Francisco State and an MLIS with a concentration in Archives and Archival Administration from San José State University. A dedicated member of the printing history community, Alex has been active in the Northern California Chapter of APHA and is a past president of the chapter.

TODD SAMUELSON, VICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLICATIONS

Todd Samuelson (PhD, University of Houston) is the Associate Dean for Special Collections at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library, where he leads forty archivists and curators in building and providing access to the Library’s manuscript, multimedia, and antiquarian print collections. Samuelson’s research interests focus upon the technologies of historical book production. At the Book History Workshop, a week-long intensive at Texas A&M University, Samuelson has served on the faculty since 2007. A letterpress printer and relief illustrator, Samuelson produces fine-press books and broadsides under his Fat Matter Press imprint, including the artist’s book Ferment (2023).

SETH GOTTLIEB, TRUSTEE

Seth Gottlieb (no relation to Ernst Gottlieb) is a historian of technology focused on printing and the construction of knowledge. His research is motivated by an interest in exploring the complex relationships between people and the technologies the create and rely upon. He is currently the Collections Curator (contractor) at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

ANA RODRÍGUEZ, TRUSTEE

Ana D. Rodríguez is the Digitization Coordinator & Registrar of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She manages the digital transformation and care of one of the most comprehensive textual collections in the nation. She received her MA in Art History from the University of Florida with a thesis on Lorenzo Homar’s linoleum print “El Obispo de Ponce,” from the Las Plenas portfolio, plus a certificate in Latin American studies. She also has a master’s degree in Library and Information Science. She attended college at the Universidad de Puerto Rico – Colegio de Mayaguez before working in GLAM settings for the past 24 years, in areas dedicated to special collections, digital collections, and descriptive metadata. Her academic interests include Latin American graphic printing, description of visual materials, and digital collections.

AMANDA STUCKEY, TRUSTEE

For remainder of Diane Dias De Fazio’s Second Trustee Term (2 years):

Amanda Stuckey is an associate professor of English at Central Penn College. Her research focuses on the intersections of book history and disability studies, work that has been published in Printing History, Studies in American Fiction, Criticism, and American Periodicals, among others. Her co-edited collection of reflections and curriculum materials on integrating archival research into undergraduate classrooms is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. She is also completing a book project on the experiences of visually impaired readers before the standardization of braille in the United States. She received her MA from the University of Virginia and her PhD from the College of William & Mary.